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There Are Some Really Bizarre Secret Car Deals Happening Right Now
There Are Some Really Bizarre Secret Car Deals Happening Right Now-August 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:09:52

I like to save a buck wherever I can. I like doing this so much that I cut my kitchen sponges and only use one half at a time to make the pack last longer. My kind and considerate friends say I’m “frugal,” but let’s just call it what it is: I am a cheap bastard and these car deals have me extremely interested.

did all of the heavy-lifting on this one, finding five deals at the time of this writing, but here are two that I thought were fun. For example, Taco Bell employees are apparently considered “suppliers” to GM, so their status can “equate to $4,385 in savings on a .” And with the car starting at , that’s nearly a seven-percent discount! You just have to be a Taco Bell employee.

Another one concerns the . This unadvertised discount apparently kicks in when you finance or lease through Acura Financial Services. Dealers then have the option of “passing along as much as $30,000 in to help lower the price of the nearly $160,000 car.”

Of course, CarsDirect notes that dealers aren’t obligated to do this, so maybe ask around a bit.

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